The Future of Success

The dizzying exuberance of the Internet-driven marketplace offers unprecedented opportunities and an ever-expanding choice of products and jobs. This is a boon to us as consumers, but it's wreaking havoc in the rest of our lives. Using examples from everyday life, Reich delineates what success is coming to mean in our time and suggests how we might create a more balanced society and more satisfying lives.

I would listen to The Future of Success again, because the observations and insights in it are not commonly discussed in contemporary political discourse, yet they're as relevant to living in America today as they were when the book was published.

What other book might you compare The Future of Success to and why?

The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren may compare to the Future of Success, as it is also a thoroughly researched sociologic study of the political and economic forces that shaped the transformation of the American middle class in the 20th century.

Have you listened to any of Robert B. Reich’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

This one seems to have longer, extended examples from Reich's own life.

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